Poems (Clark)/Grandmother's Lover
GRANDMOTHER'S LOVER
He brought me a nosegay so funny, Funny as funny can be,—Clover and catnip and yarrow, And a bit of a mulberry-tree;And he said I looked like my grandma When she was a slip of a girl;And would I give him a keepsake, A wee little, dear little curl?And he bowed with a stately obeisance to me,My grandma's old lover from over the sea.